Birthdays:
1964~ Russell Crowe (né Russell Ira Crowe), New Zealand-born actor.
1956~ Christopher Darden (né Christopher Allen Darden), American lawyer best known as being on the defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1955~ Tim Cochran (né Thomas Daniel Cochran; d. Dec. 16, 2014), American mathematician. He died suddenly at age 59.
1954~ Jackie Chan (né Chan Kong-sang), Chinese actor and martial artist.
1945~ Joël Robuchon (d. Aug. 6, 2018), French chef who created a culinary empire. He died of cancer at age 73.
1939~ Sir David Frost (né David Paradine Frost; d. Aug. 31, 2013), British journalist most famous for his interviews with United States President Richard Nixon. He was the master interviewer who got President Nixon to apologize. He died of a heart attack at age 74.
1939~ Francis Ford Coppola, American film director, best known for his The Godfather movies.
1938~ Jerry Brown (né Edmund Gerald Brown), American politician and 34th and 39th Governor of California. He served his first term from January 1975 until January 1983. He assumed office in his second term in January 2011.
1933~ Wayne Rogers (né William Wayne McMillan Rogers, III; d. Dec. 31, 2015), American actor best known for his role as Trapper John from M*A*S*H. He died of complications from pneumonia at age 82.
1931~ Daniel Ellsberg, American political activist. He is best known for his role in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971 about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War.
1928~ Alan Jay Pakula (d. Nov. 19, 1998), American film director best known for Sophie’s Choiceand All the President’s Men. He was killed in a car accident at age 70.
1928~ James Garner (né James Scott Bumgarner; d. July 19, 2014), American actor who put brains before brawn. He was best known for his roles as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford in the television shows, Maverick and The Rockford Files. He died of a heart attack at age 86.
1921~ Feza Gürsey (d. Apr. 13, 1992), Turkish mathematician. He died 6 days after his 71stbirthday.
1920~ Ravi Shankar (né Rabindro Shankar Chowdhury; d. Dec. 11, 2012), Indian musician and sitar player. He died at age 92.
1918~ Bobby Doerr (né Robert Pershing Doerr; d. Nov. 13, 2017), American baseball Hall of Famer who served as the Boston Red Sox’s “silent captain.” He spent his entire career with the Red Sox from 1937 until 1951. He died at age 99.
1915~ Billie Holiday (née Eleanora Fagan; d. July 17, 1959), African-American singer and songwriter. She died of liver disease at age 44.
1897~ Walter Winchell (d. Feb. 20, 1972), American journalist, gossip commentator and broadcaster. He died at age 74 of prostate cancer.
1893~ Allen Dulles (né Allan Welsh Dulles; d. Jan. 29, 1969), 5th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He served under President Dwight David Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy from February 1953 until November 1961. He resigned following the Bay of Pigs incident. He died of influenza at age 75.
1891~ Ole Kirk Christiansen (d. Mar. 11, 1958), Danish businessman, carpenter and toymaker. He founded Legos. He died of a heart attack less that a month before his 67th birthday.
1890~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas (d. May 14, 1998), American journalist, environmental activist and feminist. She died at age 108.
1889~ Gabriela Mistral (née Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga; d. Jan. 10, 1957), Chilean writer, educator and diplomat. She was the recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the first Latin American woman to be awarded this Prize. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 67.
1860~ Will Keith Kellogg (d. Oct. 6, 1951), American industrialist and food manufacturer. He was the founder of the Kellogg’s Company. He died at age 91 of heart failure.
1811~ Hasan Tahsini (d. July 3, 1881), Albanian astronomer and mathematician. He died at age 70
1803~ James Curtiss (d. Nov. 2, 1859), 11th and 13th Mayor of Chicago. He served his first term from 1847 to 1848, and his second term from 1850 to 1851. He died at age 56 after a long illness.
1786~ William R. King (né William Rufus DeVane King; d. April 18, 1853), 13th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Franklin Pierce from March 1853 until April 1853. He had been ill with tuberculosis and had gone to Cuba to recover his health. Because of this, he was allowed by an Act of Congress to take his oath as Vice President outside the United States. He also served as Vice President for only 6 weeks before he died. He died 11 days after his 67th birthday.
1772~ Charles Fourier (né François Marie Charles Fourier; d. Oct. 10, 1837), French philosopher. He died at age 65.
1770~ William Wordsworth (d. Apr. 23, 1850), English poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He died 16 days after his 80th birthday.
1652~ Pope Clement XII (né Lorenzo Corsini; b. Feb. 6, 1740). He was Pope from July 1730 until his death 10 years later. He died a day before his 88th birthday.
1506~ Saint Francis Xavier (né Francisco de Jasso y Azpiliceuta; d. Dec. 3, 1552). Spanish missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He died of a fever at age 48.
566~ Gao Zu (d. June 25, 635), Chinese founder and emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He died at age 69.
Events that Changed the World:
2017~ A terror attack occurred in Stockholm when a stolen truck rammed into a crowd of people. Five people were killed and several others were injured.
2009~ Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (b. 1938) was sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering the kidnapping and killing by the security forces during his governmental regime.
2003~ United States troops captured Bagdad, Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed two days later, on April 9.
1994~ Civil War and widespread massacre of the Tutsis erupted in Kigali, Rwanda.
1980~ The United States severed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1967~ Film critic Roger Ebert (1942 ~ 2013) published is first film review. It appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1949~ South Pacific, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, opened on Broadway. It went on to run for nearly 2000 performances and won 10 Tony Awards.
1948~ The United Nations established the World Health Organization.
1943~ In Terebovlia, Ukraine, the Nazis ordered 1,100 Jews to parade through the city in their underwear to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they were all murdered and buried in ditches.
1940~ Booker T. Washington (1856 ~ 1915) became the first African-American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1933~ Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer, 8 months before the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed prohibition in its entirety. April 7, thus became known as National Beer Day.
1927~ The first long distance public television broadcast was made, showing an image of Commerce Secretary, Herbert Hoover (1874 ~ 1964). The broadcast was sent from Washington, D.C. to New York City.
1922~ Albert B. Fall (1861 ~ 1944), Secretary of the Interior under the Warren Harding administration, leased the Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming, to specific private companies without going through the proper competitive bid process. This became known as the Teapot Dome scandal.
1906~ Mount Vesuvius erupted causing massive damage to the city of Naples, Italy.
1862~ The Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War ended after Union Army defeated the Confederate Army near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1348~ Charles University in Prague was established as the first university in Central Europe.
1141~ Empress Matilda (1102 ~ 1167) became the first female ruler of England. She ruled until 1148, when King Stephen regained the throne.
451~ Attila the Hun (403 ~ 453) is said to have attacked and sacked the town of Metz and other cities in Gaul.
Good-Byes:
2017~ Patricia McKissack (née Patricia L’Ann Carwell; b. Aug. 9, 1944), American children’s author who championed black heroes. She died at age 72.
2015~ Stan Freberg (né Stanley Victor Friberg; b. Aug. 7, 1926), American comedian and satirist who made commercials funny. He also created a humorous album on American history entitled Stan Freberg Modestly Presents the United States of America. He was 88 years old.
2014~ Sandy Green (né James Alexander Green; b. Feb. 26, 1926), Scottish mathematician. He died at age 88.
2013~ Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim; b. Nov. 10, 1931), American fashion designer. She died at age 81.
2012~ Mike Wallace (né Myron Leon Wallace, b. May 9, 1918), American journalist and media personality. He was the veteran journalist who always got the scoop. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died about a month before his 94th birthday.
2009~ Dave Arneson (né David Lance Arneson; b. Oct. 1, 1947), American gamester who co-invented Dungeons and Dragons. He died of cancer at age 61.
2007~ Johnny Hart (né John Lewis Hart; b. Feb. 18, 1931), American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip B.C. and co-creating The Wizard of Id. He was also a fundamentalist Christian. He died at age 76.
1986~ Leonid Kantorovich (b. Jan. 19, 1912), Russian mathematician and economist. He was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. He died at age 74.
1984~ Frank Church (né Frank Forrester Church, III; b. July 25, 1924), American politician and United States Senator from Idaho. He died at age 59 from a pancreatic tumor.
1955~ Theda Bara (née Theodosia Burr Goodman; b. July 29, 1885), American silent film actress best known for her role in The Vamp. She died of stomach cancer at age 69.
1950~ Walter Huston (né Walter Thomas Houghston; b. Apr. 5, 1883), Canadian actor. He was the father of director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston. He died 2 days after his 67th birthday of an aortic aneurysm.
1947~ Henry Ford (b. July 30, 1863), American automobile manufacturer and pioneer. He founded the Ford Motor Company. He died at age 83.
1943~ Alexandre Millerand (b. Feb. 10, 1859), French lawyer and President of France from September 1920 until June 1924. He died at age 84.
1900~ Frederic Edwin Church (b. May 4, 1826), American landscape painter. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He died about a month before his 74th birthday.
1891~ P.T. Barnum (né Phineas Taylor Barnum; b. July 5, 1810), American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer. He was a co-founder of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He was the subject of the 2017 movie, The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackson. Barnum died at age 80.
1844~ Morgan Lewis (b. Oct. 16, 1754), 3rd Governor of New York. He served as Governor from July 1804 until June 1807. He died at age 89.
1823~ Jacques Charles (né Jacques Alexandre César Charles; b. Nov. 12, 1746), French physicist and mathematician. He died at age 76.
1761~ Thomas Bayes (b. 1701), English mathematician and Presbyterian minister. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 59 at the time of his death.
1614~ El Greco (né Doménikos Theotokópoulos, b. October 1541), Greek-born painter who did most of his work in Spain. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 72 or 73 at the time of his death.
1498~ Charles VIII of France (b. June 30, 1470). He became king at age 13. He was King from August 1483 until his death in April 1498. He died at age 27 when he struck his head on the lintel of a door. He is believed to have suffered from a subdural hematoma.
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